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TIL there are two Chili's in Saudi Arabia

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4kK8b TIL that preflight checklists were introduced after a 1935 crash of a prototype B-17 which resulted in the deaths of both pilots. Investigation found that the pilots forgot to disengage the gust locks prior to take off.
epjn6 TIL Space Invaders was such a huge success by 1982 it had grossed $14 billion adjusted for inflation, it was the highest-grossing entertainment product of all time
QN4B9 TIL that Wangari Maathai became the first Black woman to win the 2004 Nobel Peace for her environmental work in Kenya. She was also the first woman in East and Central Africa to earn a doctorate degree.
W7L4L TIL that upon the storming of the Bastille and the release of prisoners, the facility had held only seven men captive, not hundreds. Eight prisoners would have been freed but the Marquis de Sade had been released ten days earlier.
gr5A9 TIL that when an apiary needs a new queen the farmer can't just put one in or the bees may kill her because she smells unfamiliar, so what the farmers do is lock the little queen in a cage with a door made of sugar, so that by the time the workers eat enough sugar for her to leave they are familiar.